Fear among some swing-state voters that Trump would refuse to leave office could help Biden, report says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Despite such concerns, a swing-state poll last week from The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Siena College showed that Trump led Biden in five of six states polled from April 28 to May 9, 2024.
45% : "I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill," Trump said, before characteristcally later claiming in an interview with Time that the comment "was said in fun, in jest, sarcastically."The former president has also continually made inflammatory comments over extending his presidency past two terms, a move prohibited by the 22nd Amendment stipulating that "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice."In 2020, Trump told a rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin: "We are going to win four more years.
44% : "Despite seemingly dialing back such aspirations last month, when he told Time he intended to serve just the four years, Trump again hinted that he might take a different approach at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting last week: "You know, FDR 16 years -- almost 16 years -- he was four terms.
39% : Russell Wheeler, a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's Governance Studies program, told Business Insider that it seemed unlikely Trump would be able to get a repeal of the 22nd Amendment if he's in office -- which would require either a two-thirds majority vote in the House and Senate or legislatures of two-thirds of the states to call for a convention.
39% : Seiji Carpenter, a vice president at David Binder Research with 10 years of experience running Democrat focus groups, also told Bloomberg that his firm had seen the issue cropping up: "We were talking to Latino men and Asian American-Pacific Islander women in battleground states, and they went straight to the issue of, what if Trump won't give up power?""What we've seen so far indicates a real concern there," he added.
35% : He said that the "greater worry" was Trump "declaring a national emergency and refusing to allow the transition," particularly if the Democrats were to win the 2028 presidential election.
28% : Anxiety appears to be building over the former president's often charged, authoritarian rhetoric and incidents such as the January 6, 2021 riot, when Trump supporters -- with his encouragement -- stormed the Capitol building in an attempt to keep him in office following his defeat in the 2020 election.
28% : In a quip on Fox News in December 2023, Trump said he wouldn't be a dictator "except for day one" of his presidency.
16% : Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis previously used the amendment to attack Trump, saying that it takes "two terms as president to be able to finish this job.

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